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RB MSS M198, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 83.04.30

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1883-04-30. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/83-04-30>, accessed September 10, 2025

30/4/83.
Heute, lieber Herr Tepper, erhielt ich eine Namensliste von Pilzen, die Dr Cook gütig nach von mir gesandten Exemplaren ausarbeitete. Aus diesem Index habe ich die Benennungen mehrer Arten aus Ihren Sammlung entnommen. Der Rest Ihrer Pilze war unbestimmbar, entweder weil die Exemplare nicht in Frucht waren, oder weil Insekten die Specimina zerstörten.
Ich ersuche Sie, solche Arten Bennungen als für S.A. neu sind, Hr Prof Tate mitzutheilen; einfach neue Standorte von Pilzen sind speciellen Mittheilung kaum werth.
Bestens grüssend Ihr
Ferd. von Mueller.
30/4/83.
Today, dear Mr Tepper, I received a list of names of fungi, which Dr Cook
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Mordecai Cooke; M. Cooke to M, 16 March 1883 lists several specimens from Clarendon, Tepper's residence at this time. Some of the species listed there by Cooke are reported as 'new for South Australia' in Tepper (1883), pp. 66-8, basing his decision on absence from lists in Cooke (1881) and, apparently, B81.13.13, pp. 118-21.
kindly worked out from the specimens sent by me. From this index I have taken the names of several species from your collection. The remainder of your fungi was indeterminable, either because the specimens were not in fruit, or because insects destroyed the specimens.
I request you to communicate such species names as are new for South Australia to Professor Tate, simply new localities of fungi are scarcely worth a special communication.
Best greetings your
Ferd. von Mueller.